source: techcrunch ai: general intuition in talks to raise $300m at around $2b valuation
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general intuition, a new york startup building foundation models for ai agents that navigate space and time, is in talks to raise around $300 million. the round would value the company at just over $2 billion, sources say. it comes eight months after the startup spun out from medal, a game clip sharing platform, with a $134 million seed round. backers include jeff bezos, eric schmidt, khosla ventures, and general catalyst.
the company trains embodied ai and world models using medal's dataset of 2 billion first-person gameplay videos per year from 10 million monthly active users. this interactive data teaches machines deep spatial-temporal reasoning, letting them perceive, anticipate, and act in real time within simulations. the unique dataset has drawn interest from openai, which previously tried to buy medal, and other major ai labs.
unlike competitors such as runway, decart, and world labs that sell world models for gaming and robotics, general intuition uses its models to train ai agents as the end product. the fresh funding will expand compute capacity for a new product release by late summer or early fall. the world model space is heating up, with google's genie 3 recently adding maps data for more realistic simulations.
why it matters: training ai agents on real-world interactive data could improve robotics, autonomous systems, and simulation tools used in data science and ai development.
source: techcrunch ai: general intuition in talks to raise $300m at around $2b valuation